The Russellville Democrat., 1887-11-30

are victorious; the An rians have been defeated. The contrast may convey a distinctive idea of the extent to which moral impressions affect the efficiency of the soldier.'"
 So, my dear brother, the road you are travelling is the same you have been trav- cling q long while, but the difference in your physical condition makes it look diff ferent, and therefore the two reports you have given of yourself are as widely diff ferent as the reports in the London Times from the two correspondents. Edward Payson, sometimes so far up on the Mount that it seemed as if the centripetal force of earth could no longer hold him, some- times through physical disorder, was SO far down that 1t seemed as if the nether world would clutch him. Glorious Will jam Cowper was as good as good could be- and will be loved in tho Christian Church so long as it sings his hymn beginning: "There is fountain filled with blood ;v and his hymn beginning. "oh, for closer walk with God;n and his hymn beginning, What various hinderances we meet;" and his hymn beginning, "God moves in a mysterious way" Yet so was he overcome with melancholy, or black bile,. that it was only through the mistake of the cab driver, who took him to a wrong place instead of the river bank, that he did not commit suicide
 Spiritual condition so nightly affected by the physical state. What a great opportunity this gives to the Christian physician, for he an feel at the same time both the pulse of the body and tho pulse of the soul, and he can administer Co both at once, and if medicine is needed he can give that, and if spiritual counsel is needed he can give that--an earthly and a divine prescription at the same time and call not only on the apothecary of earth but the pharmacy of heaven. Ah, that Is the kind of doctor I want at my bedside when get sick-one that can not only count out the right number of drops, but who can also pray That is the kind of doctor have had in my house when sickness or death came.
 do not want any of your prohigate or atheistic doctors around my loved ones when the balances of life are trembling. doctor who has gone through the medi- cal college, and in dissecting room has traversed the wonders of the human mechanism, and found no God in any of the labyrinths, is q fool, and can not doc tor me or mine. But, oh, the Christian doctorsi What comfort they have been in many of our households. And they ought to have warm piece in our prayers, as well as praise on our tongue. Dear old Dr. Skillman! My fathers doc- tor. my mothers doctor, in the village home. He carried all the con nfidences os all the families for ten miles around. We all felt better as soon as we saw him enter the house. His face pronounced a beatitude before he said a word. He welcomed all of us chill dren into life and he closed the old peoples eyes when they en- tered the last slumber. l think I know what Christ said to him whom the old doctor got through his work. I think he was greeted with the words. "Come in, doctor. l was sick and ve visited me :" bless GJd that the number of Christian physicians is multiplying, and some of the students of the medical colleges are here to day, and I hail you, and bless you, and l ordain you to the tender, beautiful, heaven-descended work of u Christian physician, and when you take your diploma from the Long Island Med- ical College to look after the perishable body, be sure also to get a diploma from the skies to look after .he imperisha soul.
 Let all Christian physicians unite with ministers of the Gospel in persuading good people that it is not because God is against them that they sometimes feel depressed, but because of their diseased body. I suppose David, tho psalmist, was no moro pous when he called on every thing human and angelic, animate and inanimate, and from snowflake to hurricane, to praise God than when he said:
 Out of the depths of hell have come unto thee O Lord.
 Or that Jeremiah was any better when he wrote his prophecy than when he wrote his Lamentations" or that Job was any better when he said:
 know that my Redeemcr liveth,
 than when, covered ali over with tho pus- jules of elephantiasis, he sat in the ashes scratching tho scabs off with a broken piece of pottery; or that Alexander Cru den, the concordist, was any better man when he compiled tho book that has helped ten thousand students of the Bible than when, under the power of physical dis order, he was handcuffed and strait waistcoated in Bethnal Green Insane Asy- lum.
 "Oh,n says some Christ tan man, tho one ought to allow physical disorder to de- press his soul. He ought to live so near to God as to be always in the sunshine" !" Yes. that is good advice; but l warrant that you, the man who gives the advice, has a sound liver. Thank God every day for healthful hepatic condition, for just as certain as you lose 1t, you will some- times, like David, and like Jeremiah, and like Cowper, and like Alexan der Cruden, and like ten thousand other invalids, be playing a Dead March on the same organ with which now you play a Toccata. My object at this point is not only to emolliate the criticisms of the well against those in poor health, but to show Christian people who are atrabilarious what is the matter with them. Do not charge against the heart the crime of an other portion of your organism. Do not conclude that because the path of Heaven is not arbored with as fine a foliage, or the banks beautifully showed under with exquisite chrysanthemums as once, that therefore you are on the wrong road. The road will bring you out at the same gate whether you walk with the stride of an athlete or come up on crntches. Thousands of Christians morbid about their business, and morbid about the present, and morbid aDout but lutuTt, HNth Aht SCI iupA hii now preaching.
 Another practical use of this subject is for the young. The theory is abroad that thoy must first SOW their wild oats, and afterward Michigan wheat. Let me break the delusion. Wild oats are gem erally sown in the liver, and they can never be pulled up. They 30 preoccupy that organ that there is no room for the inplantation of a righteous crop. You see aged men about us at eighty, erect, agile, splendid, grand old men. How much wild oats did they sow be- tween eighteen years and thirtyg None absolutely none. God does not very often honor with old age those who have in early life sacrificed swine on the altar of She bodily temple. Remember, 0